Basic - Primitive Heart Tube

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The heart is the first organ to function within an embryo. It starts to function at the beginning of the fourth week when the nutritional and oxygen requirements of the growing embryo can no longer be met by diffusion from the placenta. The heart initially forms from two tubes located bilaterally (on either side) of the trilaminar embryo in the cranial (head) region. The images below show these primitive tubes developing in an embryo approximately 18 days after conception.



Text: introduction; Picture: location of heart tubes; Text + animation: basic folding;

Text: describe fusion; Picture: medial, ventral primordial heart tube; ext: describe looping;

Picture: basic looping diagram